Mechanistic insights aid computational short interfering RNA design

Methods in Enzymology

Volumn 392, Issue , 2005, Pages 73-96

  Boese, Queta ^a   Leake, Devin ^a   Reynolds, Angela ^a   Read, Steven ^a   Scaringe, Stephen A ^a   Marshall, William S ^a   Khvorova, Anastasia ^a  

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY RNA; MICRORNA; RIBOZYME; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

CELL CULTURE; CYTOTOXICITY TEST; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GENOMICS; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; REGULATORY RNA SEQUENCE; REVIEW; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA SEQUENCE; THERMODYNAMICS; UNTRANSLATED REGION;

EID: 11844270487     PISSN: 00766879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0076-6879(04)92005-8     Document Type: Article

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